by Tom DeWolf | Jun 25, 2010 | Race, Oppression, Privilege, Trauma and Healing
Two years ago a powerful book was published about modern-day slavery: A Crime So Monstrous. It’s a harrowing, eye-opening book. A couple of related stories caught my attention recently. One is about a black family in Mississippi that was enslaved until the...
by Tom DeWolf | Jun 19, 2010 | Gather at the Table, Race, Oppression, Privilege
The editor of Beacon Broadside–the blog of my publisher Beacon Press–asked me to write an essay in connection with Juneteenth. The request came just after an incident in which my friend Sharon Morgan was subjected to a stupid, racist comment about...
by Tom DeWolf | May 20, 2010 | Coming to the Table, Race, Oppression, Privilege
I turned on my computer this morning, checked my e-mails, read Doonesbury, and then began perusing a few news sites; a ritual I follow pretty much every day. When I got to CNN.com I was stunned by two faces at the top of the page. My friends Betty and Phoebe Kilby...
by Tom DeWolf | May 5, 2010 | History, Genealogy, Race, Oppression, Privilege
I’ve thought a lot over the past month about Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s decision to revive the practice of “recognizing” April as Confederate History Month. It is easy, and perhaps accurate, to chalk it up to politics. There has been no...
by Tom DeWolf | May 2, 2010 | Race, Oppression, Privilege
“We stood in El Mina slave dungeon, on the Cape Coast of Ghana on a recent trip to West Africa, overwhelmed by despair, grief and rage. Without needing to verbalize it, we were both imagining what reaching this spot must have felt like for some long-ago,...
by Tom DeWolf | Apr 27, 2010 | History, Genealogy, Race, Oppression, Privilege
Do you think less often these days about the devastation and mass deaths Haiti recently suffered as a result of the January earthquake? That would be normal. It’s no longer in the news. Other stories have taken its place in the news cycle. Perhaps you made a...
